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...substitute the word "arm" for "breast" in a script. "But won't that sound funny?" asks Tommy. "My heart beats wildly in my arm whenever you are near." Other routines that were cut were less innocuous. Such as the one in which Dickie says: "They have a fine ballet in Moscow." "Bolshoi," says Tommy. "No, no, Tommy, it really is a good ballet." That was touchy enough, but what really sent the censors running for their scissors was this exchange...
...long way from Swan Lake, and it drew a few boos on opening night at Lincoln Center last week, but George Balanchine's new ballet is added proof of the inventiveness of the nation's No. 1 choreographer...
...ballet, like the compositions, is really two separate works. In Metas-taseis (a coined word meaning dialectic transformation), an enormous disk at the center of a bare stage reveals itself to be 28 male and female dancers in chalk-white garments that look like winter underwear. Slowly they writhe, rise, and begin to surge about the stage, combining and recombining, touching and turning, with arms and legs outstretched like diagrams of molecular linkage or a microscopic view of the proliferation of cells-an impression heightened by bright white crosslighting...
Bennington, perhaps more than any other college, has the right to present a dance concert for the public. Up in the Vermont hills a lot of intensive training goes on among the students who elect Dance as their major. Daily classes in ballet and modern dance, prolonged study of choreography and performing and among the students, fiercely professional devotion, become routine. The happy result is a group of young dancers who know what they're up to. Every other year during the winter term the best of the Bennington dancers set out on a dance tour of the east coast...
...Ballet. The Soviets now run the biggest development program in an area that desperately needs industrialization. Their engineers have started work on a dam on the Euphrates that will supply electricity to much of Syria, and are prospecting for oil in Egypt. In all, Soviet teams are engaged in 100 or so major projects, including the construction of a steel plant in Algeria, a railroad in Iraq, a machine-tool plant in Iran, and a fish-meal factory in Yemen. Russian culture follows the Red flag. In Alexandria, young girls are quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened...